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| Deadpool/Batman | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | September 17, 2025 |
| No. of issues | 1 |
| Main characters | |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Various |
| Artist | Various |
| Batman/Deadpool | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | November 19, 2025 |
| No. of issues | 1 |
| Main characters | |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Various |
| Artist | Various |
Deadpool/Batman andBatman/Deadpool are twoAmerican comic bookintercompany crossoveranthologyone-shot issues presented by veteran publishersMarvel Comics andDC Comics, debuting between September and November 2025.[1] Both one-shots are non-canonical featuringBatman andDeadpool. Each company published one of the issues; Marvel Comics publishedDeadpool/Batman and DC Comics publishedBatman/Deadpool.[2] It is the first crossover between them sinceJLA/Avengers in 2004.[3]
The new collaborative project betweenMarvel Comics andDC Comics was announced in 2025, with two one-shots featuringDeadpool andBatman, respectively.Deadpool/Batman is written byZeb Wells, with art byGreg Capullo, and was published by Marvel on September 17, 2025. The one-shot features six anthology stories written by Marvel-veteran writersChip Zdarsky,Kelly Thompson,Kevin Smith,Al Ewing,Frank Miller andRyan North. The stories feature crossovers betweenCaptain America andWonder Woman,Jeff the Land Shark andKrypto,Daredevil andGreen Arrow,Rocket Raccoon andGreen Lantern,Old Man Logan andThe Dark Knight Returns and the introduction of the newAmalgam Comics character, Logo.[4][5]
Batman/Deadpool is written byGrant Morrison, with art by Dan Mora, and was published by DC on November 19, 2025.[6] The one-shot has four anthology stories written by DC-veteran writersScott Snyder withJames Tynion IV andJoshua Williamson,Tom Taylor,Mariko Tamaki andG. Willow Wilson. The stories currently feature crossovers betweenJohn Constantine andDoctor Strange,Nightwing andWolverine II,Harley Quinn andHulk andStatic andMs. Marvel.[7]
In October 2025, a second two–partintercompany crossoverone-shots was announced by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, respectively.Superman/Spider-Man andSpider-Man/Superman will debut between March and April 2026.[8]
| Titles | Featured characters | Creative team | Publication date | Ref. | ||||||||
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| Deadpool/Batman #1 (Marvel Comics) | ||||||||||||
| "The Dead of Knight" | Deadpool andBatman |
| Sep 17, 2025 | [9] | ||||||||
| "The Gun and the Sword" | Captain America andWonder Woman |
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| "Catch" | Jeff the Land Shark andKrypto |
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| "The Red and the Green" | Daredevil andGreen Arrow |
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| "Rocket Raccoon Has A Green Lantern Ring Now" | Rocket Raccoon andGreen Lantern |
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| "Showdown" | Old Man Logan andThe Dark Knight Returns (1986) Batman |
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| "Enter Logo!" | Wolverine andLobo |
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| Batman/Deadpool #1 (DC Comics) | ||||||||||||
| "The Cosmic Kiss Caper!" | Batman andDeadpool |
| Nov 19, 2025 | [9] | ||||||||
| "A Magician Walks Into a Universe" | John Constantine andDoctor Strange |
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| "Sticks & Snikts" | Nightwing andLaura Kinney |
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| "Harley & Hulk's Amazin' Saturday!!!!" | Harley Quinn andHulk |
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| "New Friends in Old Places" | Static andMs. Marvel |
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On November 12, 2025, two digital comic book one-shots were released,The Flash/Fantastic Four onDC Universe Infinite[10] andThor/Shazam onMarvel Unlimited.[11]
InGotham City, theJoker has been stealing chemicals to create a new version of Joker Venom, powerful enough to infect an entire country. He hires theanti-hero mercenary,Deadpool on a contract to kill Batman. Deadpool breaks intoWayne Manor and encountersBruce Wayne. He begins soliciting Bruce for a mercenary job, but Bruce declines. Deadpool gets distracted when he sees theBat-Signal in the sky and leaves. At the Gotham City Police Department, Deadpool meets withJim Gordon at the Bat-Signal. Bruce, now as Batman, arrives and effortlessly fights and subdues Deadpool. Afterward, Deadpool offers to help Batman and Gordon locate the Joker's hideout, and Batman reluctantly forms a temporary partnership with him. While riding in theBatmobile, Deadpool double-crosses Batman and incapacitates him with knockout gas.
Batman wakes up tied up and finds himself a captive of both Joker and Deadpool, but he has already figured out a way to turn the tables. He begins to manipulate Joker by calling Deadpool a more impressive villain, "a villain worthy of the Bat." Driven into a jealous rage, Joker injects Deadpool with Joker Venom. Using the distraction, Batman frees himself from his restraints. Deadpool, laughing uncontrollably but still coherent, reveals to Batman that he was planning to double-cross Joker and untie him anyway. Joker then unveils his plan to release a deadly new strain of Joker Toxin across Gotham using a weaponized carousel. The only way to stop the toxin is to trigger a failsafe that will cause a massive explosion, one powerful enough to kill anyone who activates it. Due to his healing factor, Deadpool is able to activate the failsafe, destroying the carousel and surviving the explosion, ultimately saving Gotham from the Joker's toxin. Batman captures Joker. Despite Deadpool's earlier betrayal, Batman allows him to go free in recognition of his role in saving the city, but firmly tells him to leave Gotham. Deadpool agrees but decides to stick around in Gotham.
At the end ofWorld War II,Captain America andWonder Woman raided aNazi facility. Deep inside, Wonder Woman walks in on Captain America just as he's about to shootAdolf Hitler. Using herLasso of Truth, Wonder Woman convinces Captain America to stay true to his values and not execute Hitler in cold blood. Captain America hesitates, then throws the gun away. Cowardly and desperate, Hitler grabs the discarded weapon and takes his own life. However, Hitler's death did not bring an immediate end to the war. In its final days, Captain America's best friend,Bucky Barnes, was killed, and Cap himself fell into theAtlantic Ocean, where he remained for decades, frozen in ice in a state ofsuspended animation.
Decades later, he was found in the ice and recovered by Wonder Woman,Superman and members of theAvengers (Iron Man,Thor and theWasp). Over the years, Captain America and Wonder Woman would continue to team up, defending the world from threats such as theComing ofGalactus and theMultiversal Crisis. In a moment mirroring their past, Captain America later convinces Wonder Woman to stay true to her ideals and not executeMaxwell Lord in cold blood. In the future, during the Infinite Universes Crisis, Captain America is mortally wounded byThanos. As he lies dying, Wonder Woman comforts him. With his final breaths, he holds onto the Lasso of Truth, reflecting that they had been saving each other all along. In honor of Captain America's memory, Wonder Woman takes uphis shield and assembles a new team of heroes (including her daughter, implied to also be Captain America's daughter) to end the current Crisis.
At theFortress of Solitude,Krypto is playing with a ball. Using his wind breath, he zooms the ball across theArctic, where it is suddenly whacked back byJeff the Land Shark. The two begin to playfully hit the ball back and forth. Then, an arrow strikes and deflates the ball, with a pink text box message tied to it, telling him to come home for dinner, from Jeff's co-owners/parents,Gwen Poole andKate Bishop. Simultaneously, Krypto's owner,Supergirl, calls him home for dinner as well. Jeff and Krypto give each other a high five and return to their respective caregivers.
InHell's Kitchen,Daredevil is battling a group of assassins from theLeague of Shadows on a rooftop. Simultaneously,Green Arrow is fighting a group of ninjas fromThe Hand on a nearby rooftop. The two leap from their rooftops and land side by side on the street below. Daredevil momentarily mistakes Green Arrow forHawkeye, but the confusion fades as the two team up to take on the combined forces of the League of Shadows and The Hand.
During the battle, Green Arrow is knocked unconscious by a ninja from The Hand, while Daredevil's heightened senses are incapacitated byCount Vertigo's "Vertigo Effect" (an ability that disrupts his balance and induces extreme dizziness and nausea). Just as Vertigo moves in to kill Daredevil, Green Arrow regains consciousness. He unknowingly attaches one ofJack Murdock's old boxing gloves to an arrow and fires. The arrow strikes Vertigo, destroying his inner-ear implant and disabling the Vertigo Effect. With the battle over, Daredevil and Green Arrow walk off together towardsJosie's Bar for a drink and begin trading origin stories.
TheGuardians of the Galaxy (consisting ofStar-Lord,Gamora,Drax the Destroyer,Nova,Groot, andRocket Raccoon) visit theGuardians of the Universe at their homeworld, Oa. They exchange members, withGreen Lantern officerHal Jordan joining the Guardians of the Galaxy, while Rocket becomes an officer of theGreen Lantern Corps. During Rocket's first two days as a Green Lantern, he killsSinestro and commits a heist at a mob casino withGreen Arrow. On the third day, the Guardians of the Universe contact Nova to request an exchange, Rocket for Jordan. However, Jordan has become infected with theParallax–entity while wielding theInfinity Gauntlet and has swiftly defeated the Guardians of the Galaxy andThanos.
In adystopian version ofGotham City, anaged–Wolverine begins a brutal fight with anaged–Batman in an alley. To end the fight, Batman plants explosives on Wolverine's belt buckle, which detonate. Despite his injuries, Wolverine vows to fight him again.
In theAmalgam Universe, at the Orbituary Bar, the interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter Logo (anamalgamation ofWolverine andLobo) knocks out Kultron (an amalgamation ofUltron andKobra). Before leaving the bar, he blows up Thanoseid's (an amalgamation ofThanos andDarkseid) helicopter, known as theThanoseidcopter. Logo then flies off on his bike,Weapon XXX, into the galaxy, on his way to hunt down his next bounty:Super-Soldier (an amalgamation ofCaptain America andSuperman).
The cosmic entitiesEternity andKismet engage in an unexpected romantic encounter, erupting a cosmic disturbance across the entiremultiverse. Destabilizing reality itself, causing theDC Universe and theMarvel Universe to briefly and violently overlap. As dimensional walls begin to warp,Batman detects anomalies on Earth. InGotham City, he interviewsVictor Gover, a formerSuicide Squad operative mourning his wife's recent death. Gover reveals that his team had been sent to Greece to secure a mysterious reality-altering artifact—known as the Cosmic Keyboard now suspected to be reacting to the cosmic event. Batman andRobin travel to Greece, only to discover the mission site in chaos: slainCheckmate agents, monstrous interdimensional creatures, and evidence of a collapsing reality, including aBatarang from an alternate universe. However,Cassandra Nova, using hertelekinetic andtelepathic powers, has been manipulating Batman andDeadpool into finding the Keyboard to rewrite reality to her advantage. Using Deadpool as a pawn and to unknowingly test Batman while guiding both toward the Cosmic Keyboard.
She constructed a maze of warped reality, forcing Batman and Deadpool to navigate bizarre, shifting scenarios. Cassandra telepathically implants false perceptions directly into Deadpool's mind, making him believe that Batman was critically wounded by arrows within the maze. Deadpool throws Batman into one ofRa's al Ghul's Lazarus Pits, and suddenlyDark Claw, an alternate personality of Batman triggered by trauma in the Lazarus Pit combined with Cassandra Nova's manipulations, emerges. Dark Claw attacks Deadpool and briefly fights him. Meanwhile, in the real world, Robin attacks Cassandra, releasing her psychic grip on Batman and Deadpool. They run toward the fortress containing the Cosmic Keyboard, encountering numerous bodies of monstrous interdimensional creatures and an unconscious Batman variant from Earth‑7642. The duo meetsThe Writer, who has attained the Cosmic Keyboard. Cassandra attempts to subdue the Writer telepathically, but to no avail.Using the Keyboard and the cosmic disturbance, the Writer combines Batman and Deadpool into "Deadbat", who decapitates Cassandra. As the cosmic disturbance ends, both universes return to their normal states, Deadpool restores Cassandra's head, placing it into a jar, and Gover's wife is brought back to life, at the request of Batman.
During the cosmic disturbance affecting the entire multiverse,John Constantine arrives at theSanctum Sanctorum seekingDoctor Strange's help in separating their worlds and restoring metaphysical balance. A catastrophic breakdown of magical barriers has caused the Hells of both universes to merge, leading to direct conflict between their respective rulers,Neron andMephisto as well as their avatars,Ghost Rider andSwamp Thing. Constantine claims he has come to form an alliance, but this is a calculated lie; his true objective is to acquire theEye of Agamotto, an artifact he knows Strange would never willingly relinquish. After a tense exchange and a brief display of magical manipulation, Constantine manages to use the Eye, ultimately with Strange's reluctant assistance, to separate the fused hell-realms and undo the cosmic collision. With the crisis resolved, Constantine and Strange part ways as uneasy allies, their mutual respect tempered by distrust.
Gabby Kinney, the clone ofLaura Kinney (Wolverine), is missing inGotham City. Wolverine searches for her, and tries to contactBatman, whom is unavailable. His protégéNightwing offers his help to find Gabby. Using Gabby's scent, the duo tracks it to the sewers. As they explore the sewers, they find Gabby in a cage and rescue her. Suddenly,Killer Croc appears and attacks them. Fearfully, Croc stops, and Gabby reveals that she was not kidnapped by him; instead, he had taken Jonathan, Gabby's pet wolverine. Nightwing subdues Croc, and later at the Clock Tower, the duo, along with Gabby andBarbara Gordon, sit down and eat Chinese food with Jonathan and Haley, Nightwing's dog. Afterward, Nightwing and Wolverine leave and, on a rooftop, talk about their childhoods and their respective fathers: Batman and the originalWolverine.
Harley Quinn is at the Acid Reign Amusement Park inGotham City, getting a hot dog from a hot-dog stand, when all of a sudden a rat-like robot comes racing through, pursued by theHulk. The robot accidentally crashes into the hot-dog stand and carries it off, barreling into a waste-management facility and smashing into a vat of toxic waste. As Harley and the Hulk look on, toxic hot dogs leap out of the vat and begin attacking them. The Hulk throws Harley toward the control panel, and she turns the switch from "hot" to "cold," freezing all the hot dogs. As Harley proclaims to the Hulk, "Let's do it again!"
Kamala Khan andVirgil Hawkins are both eating dinner with their respective families when akaiju begins attacking the city. Kamala suits up as Ms. Marvel, while Virgil suits up as Static. Ms. Marvel and Static meet and team up to defeat the kaiju.
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Michael Guerrero and Christopher Franey, in a joint review ofDeadpool/Batman #1 forAIPT, both praised the issue's main story. Guerrero commented that while apprehensive going in, he was "pleasantly surprised" asZeb Wells "wrote a captivating story with fun twists and turns. As a result, I'm glad I took a leap of faith on this crossover, and encourage everyone else to do the same". Similarly, Franey wrote that "Wells does a fantastic job of capturing the voices" of Deadpool and Batman. Franey opined that the premise of these two characters together was "a hard sell", however, "playing Deadpool against the Joker is such a brilliant move. Having those two crazies play against and with Batman is worth the price tag alone".[5]
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